{"id":7397,"date":"2023-09-24T15:50:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T15:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/at-least-16-killed-in-coal-mine-fire-in-southwest-china\/"},"modified":"2023-09-24T15:50:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T15:50:32","slug":"at-least-16-killed-in-coal-mine-fire-in-southwest-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/at-least-16-killed-in-coal-mine-fire-in-southwest-china\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 16 killed in coal mine fire in southwest China"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At least 16 people were killed in a coal mine fire on Sunday in southwest China\u2019s Guizhou province, local officials said.<\/p>\n

The fire broke out at the Shanjiaoshu Coal Mine at around 8:10am (0010 GMT), the Panzhou City government said in a notice posted to its website on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was preliminarily determined that the conveyor belt caught fire, causing 16 people to be trapped,\u201d it added, with no further details on what was damaged or how the fire began.<\/p>\n

Emergency personnel extinguished the blaze and temperatures at the site returned to normal, but \u201cafter preliminary verification, 16 people have no vital signs\u201d, the notice said.<\/p>\n

The Panzhou City mine is about 3,600 kilometres (2,250 miles) southwest of the capital Beijing.<\/p>\n

China \u2014 the world\u2019s biggest emitter of the pollutants driving climate change \u2014 operates thousands of coal mines, even as Beijing has pledged to peak greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.<\/p>\n

While safety standards in the country\u2019s mining sector have improved in recent decades, accidents still frequently plague the industry, often due to lax enforcement of protocols, especially at the most rudimentary sites.<\/p>\n

Last year, 245 people died in 168 accidents, according to official figures.<\/p>\n

An explosion at a coal mine<\/a> in Shaanxi province in northern China last month killed 11 people, nine of whom were trapped inside. Another two people managed to make it to the surface before they succumbed to their injuries, according to state media reports at the time.<\/p>\n

In February, a coal mine partly collapsed<\/a> in the remote and sparsely populated Alxa League of the northern Inner Mongolia region after a 180-metre-high (590-foot) slope gave way. Dozens of people and vehicles were buried under a mountain of debris, but authorities did not disclose the final death toll for months.<\/p>\n

It was only revealed in June that 53 people had been killed.<\/p>\n

In a sign of that incident\u2019s severity, Chinese President Xi Jinping at the time ordered authorities to \u201cdo everything possible to search for and rescue the missing people\u2026 and protect the security of people\u2019s lives and property as well as overall social stability\u201d.<\/p>\n

Authorities deployed hundreds of personnel and over 100 pieces of equipment as part of the rescue operation, according to local government statements.<\/p>\n

And in December, around 40 people were working underground when a gold mine in the northwestern Xinjiang region collapsed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At least 16 people were killed in a coal mine fire on Sunday in southwest China\u2019s Guizhou province, local officials said. The fire broke out at the Shanjiaoshu Coal Mine at around 8:10am (0010 GMT), the Panzhou City government said in a notice posted to its website on Sunday night. \u201cIt was preliminarily determined that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/09\/242005132b9285d.jpg?r=200725","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}